Tag: Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft and the League of Technical Voters are excited to invite you to a 2-day codeathon during the week-end of April 9th through the 11th at the Microsoft Chevy Chase office in the DC area (please see attached flyer). The focus of the effort is on making government documents more accessible and citable. The event is open to…

One of the cool aspects of working at Microsoft is the opportunity to work on some fantastic projects. It’s truly been a pleasure working on some great internet facing SharePoint websites that showcase the platform’s ability to service some of the internet’s most demanding websites and show it’s effectiveness as a web content management platform. …

This is an interesting article from GCN: http://gcn.com/articles/2009/07/27/gcn-lab-windows-7-performance-tests.aspx So if you are a Public Sector developer out there using Windows XP and you can’t use Visual Studio 2008, there’s hope for you. I’m personally aware that it (VS 2008) runs well on a netbook with 512MB of ram. (right Joel? <grin>) So, is Windows 7…

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. This week marks my 5 year anniversary at Microsoft. Five years ago, I stopped being a “real developer” and became an evangelist. Ok, I started with a short stint as a SQL / BizTalk Technology Specialist (what other companies call “pre-sales engineer”), but I’ve pretty much been focused…

The final March 2009 CTP for the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint (v1.3) has now been recently released. Head on over to Paul Andrew’s Blog (Paul is a Technical Product Manager on the SharePoint Team) for a rundown of the new capabilities available in this CTP. Also with this release, we released a set…

I’m not much of a SharePoint dev. I’ve taken a SharePoint development class, but that’s it. I keep telling myself that I am going to dig in to SharePoint more. I know that many of the folks that attend the Developer Dinners are doing a fair amount of SharePoint development. I just came across the…

For those of you (like me) who are interested in Accessibility and/or need to ensure your websites remain in compliance with section 508 you’ll be interested to know that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on Nov. 3, 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0…

With the .NET Framework 3.5 (the version native to Visual Studio 2008) coming up on its first anniversary, Microsoft is poised to release the first update to the framework in the form of Service Pack (SP1). This Service Pack is unlike your standard Service Pack, in that it will introduce new features/capabilities to the .NET…

A new set of ESB guidance has been released by the Patterns and Practices team. Details below: Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP October 2008 Release Quick Links: – MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/esb…